I travelled to downtown Vancouver to try Mazesoba also called Mazemen in North America, a brothless Japanese ramen that originated in Nagoya, Japan. It was inspired by a Taiwanese recipe (and because of this, it is also sometimes known as Taiwan Mazesoba in Japan). Watch me react to this unique ramen experience that involved instructions and many steps. I loved trying this Japanese Mazesoba.
Far off in the distance are some beautiful white cap mountains of Vancouver today is a beautiful day not usually Ramen day we go for rainy days but we’re going to go for Ramen kind of looks like an apple because now we have a nice view of the kitchen so this is kokuro Tokyo mat SOA I think this is like a dry Ramen let’s see what we got here spicy matobo so yeah this is like a dry
One what’s going on here okay here we go more than Ramen Japanese style mixed Ramen so it comes with a raw egg slow bra chasu we know that the pork seaweed that’s a Nori green onion runny egg Yol grinded Sab of fish that’s new soft boiled egg I think that’s the thing to
Get so that’s the cream mat SOA so that’s comes in a broth maybe this is the Tokyo One I guess that’s the standard one but this one’s say popular and then we’ve got zenu well oh carbonera all right we’ll have to ask her what to get salmon there’s all sorts
Of stuff on here this place looks awesome okay I got to the bottom of this so I asked her she said that the niku matoba is with the chasu and then the Tokyo is no chatu and then the this one up here the MCO is with
Like a raw fish which is like a salmon so we’re going Tokyo Because sounds delicious and it also says it on the front of the menu all right let’s explore what these little side condiments are it’s like some sort of incredibly hot chili this looks like black pepper and vinegar I think I’ll be using some of that look what I found a trusty
How to eat matoba guide so we can follow that trying to do my research so Taiwan Massi SOA which actually originated from ngoya prefecture in Japan I think this is the Genesis of this dish Japan I don’t know why it’s called Taiwan hopefully holy look at this beautiful Thing smells smells good okay here we go break the yolk and mix and eat I can do that wow I wish you could smell that jiggly kind of uh runny squeakiness happening here this is proper I guess these are like thicker noodles like a hudon noodle I don’t know
If this classifies as Ramen but we’re going for It w Umami smash to the face the raw egg yolk adds like a creaminess and the seaweed adds kind of a real salty Umami griny type flavor this is aggressive flavors it’s very good you’re over some boring plain food come eat this stuff this city is wild there’s like 30 different types of
Regional ra look at that glistening nood goodness oh wait we have to follow the instructions try adding vinegar when feeling greasy and salty let’s do that thanks your neighbors okay we added a little vinegar that definitely freshens things up little acidity to cut through the fat I like that with
The let’s follow the next rule add extra chili flakes and peppers if you love spicy I love spicy chili cam this is like interactive I like the instructions whoa this chili just hit me in the nose it’s hot hot it’s getting better vinegar chilies woo going to clean you out okay
It said add pepper how do I do this here you go I may have put way too much pepper in but we’re going to go for it Stir It Up This may become a this basically a carbonera pepper eggs or like a cew Pepe damn thank you
Okay and then I guess I get my rice at the end but the ground beef in here that’s big depth flavor it’s really seasoned there might be like 40,000 Mig of salt in here but it’s good probably need a cold beer with it okay get a free
Portion of rice and mix with the remaining sauce I can do that I like it when food comes with instruction All right what happens now oh gosh nice way to level things out a little look at this raw egg vinegar pepper chili rice green onion seaweed ground meat everything but the kitchen sink here at the Tokyo M SOA okay I beat the game it’s time for the water
Truck necessary very Vancouver look we have low carb noodles vegan ramen and if you really want franchise opportunity all right what do we do here 1465 for my Tokyo mits SOA seems to be the going rate of ramen 14 to maybe 17 bucks something like that they gave me this min
Which is exciting maybe it’s a Japanese mint refreshing end to a hugely flavorful dish thank you oh well that’s it another uh Ramen joint under the boat that was good
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